This Is Your Brain on Drugs: A Review of Chris Letheby’s Philosophy of Psychedelics
Journal of Contemplative Studies June 25, 2026 Daniel Hirshberg
A philosophy of psychedelics is now broadly relevant due to mainstream interest, scientific investigation, therapeutic trials, entrepreneurial enterprise, and decriminalization of natural psychedelics in several American states. Chris Letheby's Philosophy of Psychedelics is the first monograph to apply the term as an unelaborated title, backed by Oxford University Press, projecting the authority of an academic urtext that could define a renewed and newly legitimate field of inquiry.